Hi, I have a number of legacy applications written in VC6. I tried (for an experiment) to convert to VS2003 and had nothing but problems. VC2003 on to later editions are not good at backward compatibility. This is largely due to switching from a VC runtime to a dot-net runtime. These are very different run-time environments. There is a project in VS2003 that used MFCs but the whole run-time is meant to use dot-net. I don't mean to suggest this cannot be done, only that there will be a good deal of work to do in the process.
Here is the real question...is there a good reason for converting? You will undoubtedly have a lot of work and for what. What advantage will you have when you are finished? Kevin --- In [email protected], "Niranjan Kulkarni" <guruof...@...> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I have VC++ from Visual Studio 6 installed on my machine. > I would like to shift from older version to latest Visual Studio version. > But a lot of my applications are still developed in VC++ 6. > > If I remove VS 6 and install the latest version, will I be able to open VS > 6 > projects in new versions and maintain them as efficiently as I can do today. > > I think MS should have good backward compatibility, but want your opinion > since these are critical applications for my organisation. > > Also if I decide the run VS6 and Latest version of VS run in parallel on my > machine, will it allow me to do so? > > Please advise. > > Thanks, > Niranjan. >
